View full sizeDan Gleiter, The Patriot-News, 2009Bus drivers get their buses ready for the start of the 2009 school year at the Central Dauphin School District transportation center on Rutherford Road in Lower Paxton Township, Dauphin County.

The motion, which was approved unanimously, was called an “amicable resolution” by board president Ford Thompson in a prepared statement during the meeting Thursday night.

However, no details of the resolution were immediately made public at the meeting. Thompson said the details would be made public through a joint press release on Friday afternoon.

The agreement ends the yearlong litigation battle that resulted from the early termination of bus driver contracts in 2009 when the school district outsourced bus services and sold the school buses to Durham School Services.

Brian Faleshock, board member, said that he “is extremely excited that we can bring it to an end with an agreement that benefits all parties.”

The district and bus drivers have been locked in a legal battle since the school board's 5-1 decision in August 2009 to exit its contract with the drivers union early and sell its fleet to Durham School Services of Illinois for $2.26 million.

The decision, which has the district leasing the buses back from Durham at the cost of roughly $49,000 a month, led to a spate of lawsuits and injunctions filed by the drivers union.

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